Print made by P. Crotchet, active 1768, British, Grown Ladies Taught to Dance, 1768
- Title:
- Grown Ladies Taught to Dance
- Date:
- 1768
- Medium:
- Line engraving, etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 11/16 x 10 3/4 inches (37.3 x 27.3 cm), Plate: 11 15/16 x 9 9/16 inches (30.4 x 24.3 cm), and Image: 10 1/4 x 8 13/16 inches (26.1 x 22.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower left: "41876"
Lettered, lower center: "GROWN LADIES TAUGHT TO DANCE. | Engraved from an Original Picture of M.r D. Dodd. | London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street."; lower right: "P. Crotchet Sculpt. | Published as the Act directs Jan. 1, 1768."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.865
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bear | books | bows | caricature | dancing | dogs (animals) | dresses | genre subject | interior | mandolin | monkey (animal) | music | obese | old | paintings | roses | satire | teaching | window | women
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41077
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